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| Volunteering by older people in the EU | | Author(s) | Anja Ehlers, Gerhard Naegels, Monika Reichert |
| Corporate Author | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) |
| Publisher | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, 2011 |
| Pages | 56 pp |
| Source | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18, Ireland.
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2011/q... |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Social inclusion ; European Union ; Case studies ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Europe is undergoing a previously unwitnessed ageing of the population. In view of this, social inclusion of the elderly and strategies to promote voluntary work among older people are now important items on the European Union's (EU) political agenda. This report is based on 30 case studies from 11 Member States (Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK). The volunteers - not always exclusively older people - were successfully engaged in meaningful projects of all kinds. The cases demonstrate best practice in all aspects of the issue, ranging from strategies to recruit volunteers, to ways of keeping them engaged and utilising their talents to the full. The report has a special focus on volunteering by those who may themselves be at risk of social exclusion. The authors are from the Technical University of Dortmund, and the report forms part of the research project, 'Measures for social inclusion of the elderly'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170321001 B |
| Classmark | GHH: RNA: WFC: 69P: 74 |
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